Volunteer Program

LEVEL 1 CLEARANCE: Required for ALL volunteers interacting with students in a supervised environment, such as classrooms, cafeteria, and media center. You must be supervised at all times by a school staff member.

LEVEL 2 CLEARANCE: Required for volunteers interacting with students in an unsupervised environment, such as: Field Trip Chaperones (fingerprinting forms will be given to you by your child’s school) and Mentors (mentors will be invited to mentor training and be fingerprinted during a mentor training session). Level 2 CLEARANCE requires that all volunteers undergo fingerprinting. Please note: All volunteers are required to complete the volunteer application.

For all questions regarding field trip chaperones, please contact:

Paula Carroll
District Security Center
Paula.carroll@leonschools.net
Wk:850-487-7117

NEW FIELD TRIP CHAPERONES: Please note that all field trip chaperones will be required to undergo and pass a Level 2 clearance with fingerprinting at the cost of the volunteer. The cost is $61.00, and fingerprints are good for 5 years. Schools will give potential field trip chaperones the fingerprinting paperwork.
School Administration reserves the right to make the final decision for chaperone selection. All fingerprinting must occur 6 weeks before the field trip to allow time for processing.

Once the field trip chaperone is cleared by the fingerprinting office, they will be issued the field trip badge.  The volunteer office will send the badge directly to the principal or principal’s designee via interoffice mail.  The school will place the chaperone’s name on its approved field trip chaperone list.

RETURNING FIELD TRIP CHAPERONES:  All returning field trip chaperones will be required to complete a new volunteer application for the 2026-2027 school year.  Once they complete that process, they will receive an email within a few days informing them of their eligibility for the new school year.  If their field trip badge is still current, they will be placed on that school’s approved field trip chaperone list. If their badge is expired, then the Volunteer Office will notify them that they need to be re-fingerprinted.  All returning field trip chaperones will use their badge previously issued as long as it has not expired.